Story Elements
The Fall of the House of Usher Vocabulary
The Fall of the House of Usher Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
When and where.
What is setting?
100

Empty

What is vacant?

100

Odd or unusual

What is peculiar?

100
To wait around.
What is linger?
200
The people in the story.
What are characters?
200
All of the people of about the same age in a family.
What is generation?
200

A strong feeling of worry

What is anxiety?

200
Making you feel sad.
What is depressing?
300
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
300
To speak or make a sound from your mouth.
What is utter?
300

Something very strange (hint word begins with B)

What is bizarre?

300
Words that have similar meaning.
What is a synonym?
400
A brief work of literary fiction.
What is a short story?
400
Having to do with the mind.
What is mental?
400

To throw away

What is discard?

400
A group of words that share the same base word and have related meanings.
What is a word family?
500
An important message about life that the author wants readers to understand.
What is the theme?
500
The general feeling an author creates. The author chooses specific words or phrases to create the feeling of the literary work.
What is the mood?
500

The feeling of being very unhappy and having no hope

What is despair?

500
Something in the story that has meaning in itself, but also stands for something else.
What is symbol?
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